From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
qasdfgtyuiop <qasdfgtyuiop@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
alain@knaff.lu, albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update compression algorithm info
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:25:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8EF8EF.5070001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120418200929.086ce3a7@tukaani.org>
On 04/18/2012 10:09 AM, Lasse Collin wrote:
>
> I think it is still safe to say that gzip and LZO are better than
> bzip2, XZ, or LZMA for compressing a kernel that will be loaded from a
> normal hard disk. It would be unusual if reading the disk was so slow
> that e.g. XZ would make the booting faster than gzip.
>
Not really, because the boot loader is dependent on the firmware, which
can sometimes be infernally stupid.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-18 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 10:19 Small and unimportant description mistakes of Kernel compression mode in kernel config qasdfgtyuiop
2012-03-28 0:04 ` Tilman Schmidt
2012-04-17 23:13 ` [PATCH] kconfig: update compression algorithm info Randy Dunlap
2012-04-18 16:40 ` Lasse Collin
2012-04-18 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-18 17:09 ` Lasse Collin
2012-04-18 17:23 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-18 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-18 17:36 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-18 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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